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A classic collection of Ray Bradbury’s short fiction, available in ebook for the first time.In twenty-two stories of amazing range and variety, Ray Bradbury once again works his special magic, sounding out life's mysteries in the past, present, and the future.
| Автор | Рэй Брэдбери |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Mr Satterthwaite’s holiday in Corsica is unexpectedly interrupted by the appearance of his old friend Mr Quin, who has come to shed new light on the conviction of a jewel thief the year before…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.When a game with a Ouija board spells out the name QUIN and the name of a place, Mr Satterthwaite’s instincts tell him that a murder is about to take place and that he should drop everything to investigate…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘I snapped the switch, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the far corner which made me drop my cigar and fall into a cold sweat.’When Richard Hannay is warned of an assassination plot that has the potential to take Britain into a war, and then a few days later discovers the murdered body of the American that warned him in his flat, he becomes a prime suspect. He flees to the moors of Scotland and a...
| Автор | Buchan John |
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard. 'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running to his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerous enemy is chasing him as...
| Автор | Buchan John |
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.’Adventurous and spirited in tone, The Three Musketeers is considered one of the greatest historical French novels. When Athos, Porthos and Aramis befriend a young and determined country boy d’Artagnan, together they confront the scheming King’s Minister, Cardinal Richelieu and the female spy Milady who threaten to undermine the King. Swashbuckling, romantic and...
| Автор | Александр Дюма |
Three musketeers. Two enemies. One major battle.’‘All for one and one for all!’Country boy d'Artagnan is desperate to join the King's elite band of bodyguards, the Musketeers. And when his fiery loyalties (which often get him into trouble) and incredible sword skill (which get him out again) manages to impress brash Porthos, foppish Aramis and melancholy Athos, the three musketeers and d'Artagnan become friends for life.When they discover that the King they protect is under threat, the...
| Автор | Александр Дюма |
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.’One of the earliest works of ‘detective’ fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous novel on a real-life eighteenth century case of abduction and wrongful imprisonment. In 1859,...
| Автор | Уилки Коллинз |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Mr Satterthwaite bumps into his old friend Mr Quin at the opera, where they spot a distressed-looking girl in the audience. Later, they discover that she is in real danger and decide to rescue her…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.When two Russian dancers are injured in a car crash on the way to a performance at a masquerade, substitutes are quickly found so that the show can continue. But there is mysterious work at play that could put anyone in real danger…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
Michael Dobbs’ classic available in ebook format for the very first time.Michael Dobbs’ popular new character Tom Goodfellowe, the crumpled backbench MP, makes his debut and takes on the might of the press in this highly acclaimed novel of power and corruption – now reissued in a new cover style.
| Автор | Michael Dobbs |
A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Richard G. Lewis. The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone and friendless, frightened and confused. And it seems she knows a secret – a secret that could bring ruin and shame to a man who will do anything to keep her silent. This famous mystery thriller...
| Автор | Уилки Коллинз, Wilkie Collins Collins и др. |
The first in George MacDonald Fraser’s uproarious Flashman series and the classic they pay homage to available together for the first time in ebook format.Uproarious, nefarious and sociable at the same time, Tom Brown is at once the typical boy of his generation and the perennial hero. Tom Brown’s School Days charts our protagonist’s time at Rugby, taking his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the brutal Flashman, to his departure – with the world at his feet.In Flashman,...
| Автор | Thomas Smart Hughes |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Thomas Hughes’ novel about the mischievous but kind-hearted schoolboy Tom Brown inspired other school novels, including Frank Richards’ Billy Bunter stories and J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. The novel begins at Tom’s childhood home in the Vale of the White Horse, where he spends his days out in the fields with his pony. This early idyllic setting it set up as a contrast to the stresses that Tom...
| Автор | Thomas Smart Hughes |
Один из самых известных юмористов в мировой литературе, О. Генри создал уникальную панораму американской жизни на рубеже XIX–XX веков, в гротескных ситуациях передал контрасты и парадоксы своей эпохи, открывшей простор для людей с деловой хваткой, которых игра случая то возносит на вершину успеха, то низвергает на самое дно жизни. «– Трест есть свое самое слабое место, – сказал Джефф Питерс. – Это напоминает мне, – сказал я, – бессмысленное изречение вроде «Почему существует полисмен?». –...
| Автор | О. Генри |
One of Ray Bradbury’s classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time.Science fiction, fantasy, small town life, and small town people are the materials from which Ray Bradbury weaves his unique and magical stories of the natural and supernatural, the past, the present , and the future.This book contains eighteen short stories from one of the genre's master storytellers.
| Автор | Рэй Брэдбери |
Чарльз Диккенс – наверное, лучший английский романист Викторианской эпохи. Но удавались ему и рассказы. В них он запечатлевал портреты своих современников – аристократов и простого люда. И для тех, и для других находился свой занятный сюжет.
| Автор | Чарльз Диккенс |
«В августовское утро, когда солнце освещает землю словно через опустевший воздух и поля уже золотятся сединой осени, возле фронтовой дороги стоял красноармеец Минаков Иван Ефимович. Правая рука у него была раненая, он держал ее на перевязке. Он без просьбы посмотрел на обгонявшую его попутную машину, и мы пригласили его, чтобы подвезти до госпиталя…»
| Автор | Андрей Платонов |
Честертон был не только автором серии великолепных детективов, главный герой которых – католический священник отец Браун, но и прекрасным эссеистом. В своих великолепных эссе Честертон непостижимым образом перескакивает с предмета на предмет, сочетая легкость с мудростью.
| Автор | Гилберт Честертон |
«– Ошибаетесь, уважаемый, – не все старые девы несчастны, не все старые холостяки эгоисты. Вы сидите в кабинете с сигарой в зубах, с книжкой в руках, и вам кажется, что вы проникли в самые тайники души, все уже знаете, что нет для вас больше неразрешенных вопросов. И особенно когда вы, с божьей помощью, отыскали такое словечко, как «психология»… Штука ли – пси-хо-ло-гия!.. А знаете ли вы, что такое психология? Есть растение такое – петрушка… На вид неплоха и пахнет приятно, приправишь ею кушанье...
| Автор | Шолом-Алейхем |
«– О бессердечный, бесчеловечный, жестоковыйный, тупоголовый, замшелый, заматерелый, закоснелый, старый дикарище!» – воскликнул я однажды (мысленно), обращаясь к моему дядюшке (собственно, он был мне двоюродным дедом) Скупердэю, и (мысленно же) погрозил ему кулаком…»
| Автор | Эдгар По |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Mr Satterthwaite turns detective thanks to his mysterious friend Mr Quin when a drowned woman appears to be haunting her family home…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
One of Ray Bradbury’s classic poetry collections, available in ebook for the first time.Ray Bradbury writes of childhood, Melville, and God as well as space launchings and other-world things in this second collection of his poems.
| Автор | Рэй Брэдбери |
Four of Brian’s acclaimed essay collections in one ebook.Four books of essays dating from the 1970s to the 1990s.The books included are THIS WORLD AND NEARER ONES, PALE SHADOW OF SCIENCE, AND THE LURID GLARE OF THE COMET and THE DETACHED RETINA.
| Автор | Brian Aldiss |